Urban Word Managing Trauma in the Classroom Professional Development.
This second Words & Verbs City-Wide Professional Development Session will begin with a creative workshop. Then we will transition into a workshop led by Geoff Kagan Trenchard where we will be examining the external sources of trauma and its pervasive effect on young people. We’ll look at the neurological and psychological effects of trauma, and how writing and performing work factors into those systems. Our goal is that you leave the workshop with new ideas on how to create safer spaces for students before, during, and after they share their stories as well as techniques for how to steward the trauma you encounter as an educator.